5-Letter Words With E as the Third Letter
There are 579 five-letter words with E as the third letter. The list below ranks them by real-world frequency, so everyday words like THEIR, THERE, THESE appear before the obscurities.
Every entry comes from the tournament word lists, the kind of list used in Wordle, Scrabble, and Words With Friends, so each one is a genuine dictionary word.
Most common
- their8
- there8
- these8
- where11
- items7
- great6
- check16
- every11
- press7
- users5
- field9
- event8
- needs6
- areas5
- green6
- cheap12
- clear7
- speed8
- views11
- weeks12
All 579 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- teens 5
- ideas 6
- agent 6
- guest 6
- seems 7
- break 11
- steel 5
- clean 7
- piece 9
- sheet 8
- fresh 11
- steps 7
- creek 11
- theme 10
- dream 8
- alert 5
- queen 14
- sweet 8
- ocean 7
- feeds 9
- speak 11
- query 17
- spent 7
- sleep 7
- scene 7
- guess 6
- ahead 9
- trees 5
- dress 6
- spend 8
- ideal 6
- specs 9
- cream 9
- wheel 11
- greek 10
- shell 8
- treat 5
- opera 7
- meets 7
- trend 6
- yield 9
- quest 14
- enemy 10
- opens 7
- arena 5
- keeps 11
- bread 8
- chest 10
- theft 11
- poems 9
- feels 8
- clerk 11
- shelf 11
- seeds 6
- steam 7
- fleet 8
- omega 8
- seeks 9
- cheat 10
- teeth 8
- blend 8
- sheep 10
- wheat 11
- spell 7
- chess 10
- amend 8
- breed 8
- queue 14
- flesh 11
- sheer 8
- smell 7
- steal 5
- sperm 9
- elect 7
- chevy 16
- bless 7
- crest 7
- peers 7
- theta 8
- heels 8
- brent 7
- fuels 8
- stern 5
- sweat 8
- steak 9
- knees 9
- poets 7
- diets 6
- suede 6
- freak 12
- stein 5
- cheer 10
- deeds 7
- sweep 10
- ovens 8
- steep 7
- creed 8
- stems 7
- scent 7
- swear 8
- crews 10
- spear 7
- shear 8
- sleek 9
- queer 14
- geeks 10
- freed 9
- cheek 14
- weeds 9
- beers 7
- swept 10
- siege 6
- wreck 14
- reels 5
- slept 7
- beech 12
- sneak 9
- chefs 13
- swell 8
- steer 5
- erect 7
- dwell 9
- greed 7
- bleed 8
- liens 5
- sheds 9
- fiery 11
- creep 9
- greet 6
- creme 9
- tweak 12
- obese 7
- tread 6
- dread 7
- needy 9
- tweed 9
- adept 8
- reefs 8
- enema 7
- deems 8
- geese 6
- smear 7
- emery 10
- niece 7
- pleas 7
- overs 8
- plead 8
- sheen 8
- exert 12
- bleak 11
- piers 7
- reeds 6
- geeky 13
- tween 8
- inert 5
- eject 14
- peeps 9
- tiers 5
- frees 8
- edema 8
- overt 8
- sieve 8
- reeve 8
- cleft 10
- crepe 9
- snell 5
- avert 8
- chews 13
- speck 13
- duets 6
- teeny 8
- stead 6
- steed 6
- preps 9
- leech 10
- aleph 10
- execs 14
- coeds 8
- fiend 9
- fleas 8
- stent 5
- liege 6
- sheik 12
- piety 10
- crept 9
- chemo 12
- freer 8
- stews 8
- dwelt 9
- therm 10
- fleer 8
- glens 6
- inept 7
- fleck 14
- odeon 6
- goers 6
- peels 7
- credo 8
- treks 9
- beets 7
- spelt 7
- knelt 9
- wield 9
- kneel 9
- chewy 16
- cheep 12
- speer 7
- bleep 9
- swede 9
- cleat 7
- glebe 8
- brews 10
- beefy 13
- jeeps 14
- gleam 8
- faery 11
- grebe 8
- frets 8
- reedy 9
- sleds 6
- wreak 12
- beeps 9
- greys 9
- bream 9
- sleet 5
- smelt 7
- elegy 9
- quell 14
- areal 5
- seedy 9
- weeps 10
- cress 7
- breve 10
- hyena 11
- pleat 7
- doers 6
- sheaf 11
- evert 8
- leeks 9
- flees 8
- obeys 10
- knead 10
- glean 6
- peeks 11
- creel 7
- evens 8
- omens 7
- rheum 10
- peeve 10
- duels 6
- skein 9
- sneer 5
- steno 5
- wrens 8
- knell 9
- seeps 7
- wrest 8
- arete 5
- reeks 9
- agers 6
- oleic 7
- ileum 7
- frere 8
- dregs 7
- seely 8
- tress 5
- tweet 8
- leery 8
- jeers 12
- weedy 12
- blest 7
- loess 5
- spews 10
- bleat 7
- seers 5
- chert 10
- doeth 9
- brees 7
- creak 11
- veers 8
- clefs 10
- skeen 9
- avers 8
- nieve 8
- chela 10
- veena 8
- beefs 10
- thein 8
- ileal 5
- tyers 8
- skene 9
- lieve 8
- uteri 5
- presa 7
- scena 7
- beery 10
- dyers 9
- deeps 8
- krewe 12
- deers 6
- preys 10
- prest 7
- treed 6
- paean 7
- areca 7
- keels 9
- plena 7
- diene 6
- stele 5
- dreck 12
- skews 12
- pieta 7
- drees 6
- preen 7
- clews 10
- kneed 10
- brede 8
- whelp 13
- peery 10
- ament 7
- sheol 8
- weepy 13
- oleum 7
- abele 7
- anele 5
- shewn 11
- poesy 10
- sieur 5
- pseud 8
- doest 6
- dweeb 11
- ulema 7
- treen 5
- geest 6
- weeny 11
- ameer 7
- ileus 5
- wheal 11
- teems 7
- stela 5
- trews 8
- speel 7
- ewers 8
- whens 11
- prese 7
- emend 8
- creds 8
- avens 8
- grego 7
- pleon 7
- drear 6
- apers 7
- shews 11
- joeys 15
- treys 8
- uveal 8
- arene 5
- plews 10
- whelk 15
- plebs 9
- noels 5
- axels 12
- twerp 10
- quern 14
- abets 7
- veery 11
- stets 5
- heeds 9
- upend 8
- grees 6
- spean 7
- plebe 9
- deets 6
- akela 9
- wheen 11
- anent 5
- cleek 11
- whets 11
- liers 5
- leets 5
- preop 9
- omers 7
- viers 8
- theca 10
- riels 5
- speir 7
- fiefs 11
- leers 5
- fremd 11
- thebe 10
- oread 6
- keens 9
- sherd 9
- neeps 7
- blebs 9
- skean 9
- gleed 7
- fjeld 16
- kheda 13
- abeam 9
- sneap 7
- stere 5
- prexy 17
- slews 8
- olein 5
- drest 6
- acerb 9
- aceta 7
- adeem 8
- agene 6
- akees 9
- akene 9
- alecs 7
- alefs 8
- ameba 9
- amens 7
- anear 5
- apeak 11
- apeek 11
- apery 10
- areae 5
- areic 7
- arepa 7
- beedi 8
- bield 8
- biers 7
- blear 7
- blent 7
- blets 7
- brens 7
- caeca 9
- cheth 13
- clepe 9
- clept 9
- crepy 12
- deedy 10
- dreed 7
- dreks 10
- egers 6
- egest 6
- elemi 7
- emeer 7
- emeus 7
- epees 7
- eyers 8
- faena 8
- feebs 10
- feeze 17
- fleam 10
- flews 11
- fleys 11
- foehn 11
- frena 8
- ghees 9
- gleba 8
- glede 7
- gleds 7
- gleek 10
- glees 6
- gleet 6
- gleys 9
- haems 10
- haets 8
- heeze 17
- hoers 8
- ileac 7
- keefs 12
- keeks 13
- keets 9
- keeve 12
- kheth 15
- khets 12
- kiefs 12
- kiers 9
- koels 9
- kreep 11
- kvell 12
- laevo 8
- lieus 5
- lweis 8
- meeds 8
- miens 7
- naevi 8
- neems 7
- obeah 10
- obeli 7
- odeum 8
- ogees 6
- okehs 12
- oleos 5
- onery 8
- oxeye 15
- oyers 8
- paeon 7
- peens 7
- preed 8
- prees 7
- quean 14
- queys 17
- reefy 11
- reeky 12
- reest 5
- rheas 8
- rheme 10
- ruers 5
- scend 8
- seels 5
- seepy 10
- sheal 8
- sheas 8
- shend 9
- shent 8
- skeed 10
- skees 9
- skegs 10
- skell 9
- skelm 11
- skelp 11
- skeps 11
- smeek 11
- smerk 11
- smews 10
- sneck 11
- sneds 6
- speil 7
- steek 9
- stewy 11
- suers 5
- suets 5
- suety 8
- sweer 8
- taels 5
- teels 5
- thegn 9
- thens 8
- thesp 10
- thews 11
- thewy 14
- toeas 5
- trets 5
- tyees 8
- ureal 5
- ureas 5
- uredo 6
- ureic 7
- uveas 8
- veeps 10
- viewy 14
- weens 8
- weest 8
- weets 8
- wheep 13
- whelm 13
- whews 14
- wheys 14
- ylems 10
- zoeae 14
- zoeal 14
- zoeas 14
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with E as the third letter?
There are 579 five-letter words with E as the third letter in the tournament word lists. The most common are THEIR, THERE, THESE.
What are common five-letter words with E as the third letter?
THEIR, THERE, THESE, WHERE, ITEMS are the most frequently used. The full list of 579 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Are these valid Wordle words?
Nearly all of them. Wordle draws its answers from a curated list of common five-letter words, but it accepts almost any dictionary word as a guess, including the words on this page.